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R. E. BeasleyEssential ASP.NET Web Forms Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5784-5_2

2. Page Development

Robert E. Beasley1 
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Franklin, IN, USA
 

2.1 Introduction

A Web page is a document with a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web address . This document is served by a Web server and is displayed in a Web client (i.e., browser). Web pages are formatted using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which is a standardized coding system that uses tags to affect a page’s basic display characteristics (e.g., font, color, layout) and create simple functionality (e.g., transitions to other pages). Transitions to other pages are achieved through hypertext links (a.k.a., hyperlinks), where a hypertext link is ...

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